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The federal government has tried this before, but it was stopped in court after tobacco companies said it infringed upon their free speech rights
Between the aggressively obvious airbrushing and makeup, the unabashed targeting of cigarettes to young people, and the casual use of the term "cigarette hangover" (I've never heard this before, though I experienced it when I was a smoker), this is as science-fictional as the most extreme moments in Blade Runner or The Fifth Element
(A cigarette black market in which people in states with high taxes on packs buy bootlegged packs from states with low taxes already exists.) Anecdotally, Quest cigarettes, which came with three different levels of nicotine content, helped some smokers wean themselves off of the stimulant